Word: auburns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...never leave Harvard [because] the Harvard fundraising committee will be on your ass until the day you die. They are in Mt. Auburn cemetery right now digging up the corpse of Henry Adams, [Class...
...Soon, the so-called "Gold Coast," sprung up, a row of expensive and ritzy apartment buildings along Mt. Auburn Street, where Harvard's wealthy undergraduates could rent rooms. Buildings like Claverly Hall and Apley Court sported everything from squash courts and swimming pools to steam heat and elevators. For food, Gold Coast residents simply walked down the street to their social clubs, which offered some of the best cuisine in Cambridge. At the same time, public transportation was reaching new areas of the city. Boston and Cambridge were united by a modern and efficient trolley system, and soon...
...helm. Lowell's project became one of unifying the College and of providing equity--rather than freedom--to his undergraduates.As his successor Neil L. Rudenstine was to do in Allston half a century later, Lowell set to secretly buying plots of land surrounding the University. The territory between Mt. Auburn Street and the Charles River was, in Lowell's day, an unpropitious site, home to a few modest houses, a series of wharves and coalhouses, a power plant and a malodorous bank of mudflats...
...Kappa Eta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity begins renting apartments in a house on 45 Mount Auburn St., a development that Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III terms "unfortunate...
...Hara adorned their Eliot House suite with white modern garden furniture, including a chaise lounge. They used as a coffee table a tombstone taken from Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Gorey often sat atop this table while designing his illustrations...